I love baking. I have the best memories baking as a child in Italy with my mom and my NONNA whenever she would come and visit us.

My mom taught so much about baking in the kitchen. In Italy boxed cakes barely existed when I was a child. So we made all of our cakes form scratch. But we saw it as something so simple to do.

I learned how to cook mostly from just observing how my mom worked around even in the kitchen. I liked to help as a kid, and lick the batter left in the own after she was done.

Now I enjoy continuing this tradition with my kids. Teaching all 4 can be a bit of a challenge. But I can tell they love it so much. Every time we mess up along the way since they si eager to jump right into it, but ultimately it’s always such a joy when the cake is done and ready to go in the oven.

It’s so fun to eat a home made cake, too. You know exactly what you put in it and it’s warm and fresh out of the oven.

Most cakes can be made with 5 basic ingredients. Flour, sugar, eggs, baking soda, and oil.

Everything else are added bonuses that give cakes a million different variations and consistencies.

When I was searching for a winning recipe I chose this as a recipe for chocolate cake because it calls for egg whites only,  beat until super fluffy. which makes this cake so moist and airy once baked. I love that it has no butter as well.

I reduced the amount of sugar from the original recipe because I like to eat my dessert, but I also want to stay healthy.

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